The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].George Cowie, 1825 |
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... pleased without lamentations of the neglect of learning , the conspiracies against genius , and the slow progress of merit , or some praises of the magnanimity of those who encounter poverty and contempt in the cause of knowledge , and ...
... pleased without lamentations of the neglect of learning , the conspiracies against genius , and the slow progress of merit , or some praises of the magnanimity of those who encounter poverty and contempt in the cause of knowledge , and ...
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... pleased himself chiefly with his Essays , which come home to men's business and bosoms , and of which , therefore , he declares his ex- pectation , that they will live as long as books last . It may , however , satisfy an honest and ...
... pleased himself chiefly with his Essays , which come home to men's business and bosoms , and of which , therefore , he declares his ex- pectation , that they will live as long as books last . It may , however , satisfy an honest and ...
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... pleased , and too severe to be paci- fied ; as an enemy infinitely wise , and infinitely powerful , whom he could neither deceive , escape , nor resist . Where there is no hope , there can be no endeavour . A constant and unfailing ...
... pleased , and too severe to be paci- fied ; as an enemy infinitely wise , and infinitely powerful , whom he could neither deceive , escape , nor resist . Where there is no hope , there can be no endeavour . A constant and unfailing ...
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... pleased , will need little proof that it is his interest to please others , expe- rience will inform him . It is therefore not less necessary to happiness than to virtue , that he rid his mind of passions which make him uneasy to ...
... pleased , will need little proof that it is his interest to please others , expe- rience will inform him . It is therefore not less necessary to happiness than to virtue , that he rid his mind of passions which make him uneasy to ...
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... pleased with shewing that not fear , but choice , regulates their he- haviour ; and would be thought to comply , rather than obey . We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass ; and , as the Roman satirist remarks ...
... pleased with shewing that not fear , but choice , regulates their he- haviour ; and would be thought to comply , rather than obey . We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass ; and , as the Roman satirist remarks ...
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الصفحة 154 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
الصفحة 279 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
الصفحة 156 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
الصفحة 155 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
الصفحة 21 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd and humiliation meek?
الصفحة 228 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius merely by the event.
الصفحة 150 - He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
الصفحة 154 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
الصفحة 148 - But will arise and his great name assert : Dagon must stoop, and shall e're long receive Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him Of all these boasted Trophies won on me, And with confusion blank his Worshippers.
الصفحة 279 - ... we do not immediately conceive that any crime of importance is to be committed with a knife ; or who does not, at last, from the long habit of connecting a knife with sordid offices, feel aversion rather than terror...